Triple

T2765438
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal E61324 entity
Predicate partOf P40 FINISHED
Object Ellesmere Canal (historic)
The historic Ellesmere Canal was a major late-18th- and early-19th-century waterway project in England and Wales, designed to link the River Mersey with the River Severn and now best known for including the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
E298026 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Ellesmere Canal (historic) | Statement: [Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal, partOf, Ellesmere Canal (historic)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellesmere Canal (historic)
Context triple: [Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal, partOf, Ellesmere Canal (historic)]
  • A. Grantham Canal
    The Grantham Canal is a historic English waterway in the East Midlands that once linked the town of Grantham to the national canal network, primarily serving 18th- and 19th-century trade and now valued for leisure and wildlife.
  • B. Bridgewater Canal
    The Bridgewater Canal is a historic English canal, often regarded as the first modern canal in Britain, which played a key role in the early Industrial Revolution by linking coal mines to the growing city of Manchester.
  • C. Cromford Canal
    Cromford Canal is a historic late-18th-century English waterway in Derbyshire, built during the Industrial Revolution to transport coal and limestone and now valued for its industrial heritage and wildlife.
  • D. Coventry Canal
    The Coventry Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal, engineered by James Brindley, that links Coventry with the wider Midlands canal network and played a key role in the region’s industrial transport.
  • E. Erewash Canal
    The Erewash Canal is an 18th-century English waterway in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, historically built to serve local coalfields and now used mainly for leisure boating and recreation.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Ellesmere Canal (historic)
Triple: [Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal, partOf, Ellesmere Canal (historic)]
Generated description
The historic Ellesmere Canal was a major late-18th- and early-19th-century waterway project in England and Wales, designed to link the River Mersey with the River Severn and now best known for including the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ellesmere Canal (historic)
Target entity description: The historic Ellesmere Canal was a major late-18th- and early-19th-century waterway project in England and Wales, designed to link the River Mersey with the River Severn and now best known for including the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
  • A. Grantham Canal
    The Grantham Canal is a historic English waterway in the East Midlands that once linked the town of Grantham to the national canal network, primarily serving 18th- and 19th-century trade and now valued for leisure and wildlife.
  • B. Bridgewater Canal
    The Bridgewater Canal is a historic English canal, often regarded as the first modern canal in Britain, which played a key role in the early Industrial Revolution by linking coal mines to the growing city of Manchester.
  • C. Cromford Canal
    Cromford Canal is a historic late-18th-century English waterway in Derbyshire, built during the Industrial Revolution to transport coal and limestone and now valued for its industrial heritage and wildlife.
  • D. Coventry Canal
    The Coventry Canal is an 18th-century English narrow canal, engineered by James Brindley, that links Coventry with the wider Midlands canal network and played a key role in the region’s industrial transport.
  • E. Erewash Canal
    The Erewash Canal is an 18th-century English waterway in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, historically built to serve local coalfields and now used mainly for leisure boating and recreation.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69ab4b7bab6c8190a5c2efef19a8ef34 completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdd55a96c8190a109a1f0e8752477 completed March 7, 2026, 8:09 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc048bc8481908a6f70e034167c2a completed March 10, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc14239e48190ad20f660e88befcb completed March 10, 2026, 6:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc202466c81908c300520173837dc completed March 10, 2026, 7:02 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:57 p.m.